The school buildings represent an important testimony to the social and cultural policies adopted in geographically and historically determined contexts. Today, these complexes constitute a broad and diversified patrimony, largely worthy of protection and enhancement. In the framework of a wider research program with Universidad de Belgrano-Buenos Aires, this chapter presents the results of a research about the 43 schools built in Buenos Aires between 1885 and 1904 as an implementation of the Plan de Edificación Escolar, showing how the school architecture can constitute a tool for the social and cultural integration, and simultaneously a decisive element to outline the face of the great Capital federal.
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